October 12
1492 - Christopher Columbus landed in present-day Bahamas.
1810 - The German festival Oktoberfest was first held in Munich to celebrate the wedding of Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
1864 - Roger B. Taney, the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, died at age 87; he was succeeded by Salmon Chase.
1870 - Gen. Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Virginia at age 63.
1942 - During World War II, American naval forces defeated the Japanese in the Battle of Cape Esperance.
1942 - Attorney General Francis Biddle announced during a Columbus Day celebration at Carnegie Hall in New York City that Italian nationals in the United States would no longer be considered enemy aliens.
1960 - Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev created a disturbance at the U.N. General Assembly by pounding his desk with a shoe.
1964 - The Soviets launched Voskhod I, the first space capsule to carry three people into orbit.
1973 - President Richard Nixon nominated House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford (R-Michigan) to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president.
1984 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped an attempt on her life when an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded at a hotel in Brighton, England, killing five people.
1986 - Superpower talks between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland ended in stalemate.
1997 - Singer John Denver was killed in the crash of his privately built aircraft in Monterey Bay, California; he was 53 years old.
1998 - Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, died five days after he was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie.
1999 - Pakistan's military overthrew the democratically-elected government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
2000 - Seventeen U.S. sailors were killed in a terrorist attack on the USS Cole in Yemen.
2002 - A bomb destroyed a nightclub in Bali, killing 202 people, most of them tourists.
2007 - Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize for sounding the alarm over global warming.
2010 - The Obama administration announced it was lifting the six-month moratorium on deep water oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico imposed after the BP oil spill.
2010 - General Motors CEO Dan Akerson and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner met for the first time in New York to discuss GM's initial public offering as the automaker waited for approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell the shares.
2011 - A Nigerian al-Qaida operative pleaded guilty to trying to bring down a jetliner with a bomb in his underwear minutes before the plane landed in Detroit on Christmas Day 2009. (Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was later sentenced to life in prison.)
2019 - Legislation signed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom would ban the sale and manufacture of new fur products starting in 2023.
Birthdays
28 - Josh Hutcherson (actor)
33 - Ito Aghayere (actor)
34 - Marcus T. Paulk (actor)
34 - Tyler Blackburn (actor)
37 - Katie Piper (TV host)
38 - Lara Trump (daughter-in-law of President Donald Trump)
39 - Brian J. Smith (actor)
43 - Bode Miller (skier)
50 - Kirk Cameron (actor)
51 - Martie Maguire (country singer)
52 - Adam Rich (actor)
52 - Hugh Jackman (actor)
58 - Carlos Bernard (actor)
70 - Susan Anton (actress/singer)
73 - Chris Wallace (broadcast journalist)
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Today in Sports History - October 12
1895 - Nebraska opens the season with a 38-0 win over the Sioux City Athletic Club.
1901 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 19-0.
1907 - The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers in five games to win the World Series.
1907 - Nebraska defeats Grinnell 30-4.
1912 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 30-6.
1916 - The Boston Red Sox defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in five games to win the World Series.
1920 - The Cleveland Indians defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in seven games to win the World Series.
1929 - Nebraska defeats Syracuse 13-6.
1935 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 12-7.
1940 - Nebraska defeats Indiana 13-7.
1946 - Cockeye defeats Nebraska 21-7.
1957 - #20 Pittsburgh defeats Nebraska 34-0.
1963 - Air Force defeats Nebraska 17-13.
1967 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Boston Red Sox in seven games to win the World Series.
1968 - #6 Kansas defeats #9 Nebraska 23-13.
1974 - Missouri upsets #5 Nebraska 21-10.
1979 - Guard Chris Ford of the Boston Celtics scores the first 3-point basket in NBA history in the first quarter of a 114-106 win over the Houston Rockets.
1979 - Future Hall of Famers Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics and Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers make their NBA debuts.
1985 - #9 Nebraska defeats #5 Oklahoma State 34-24.
1986 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears became the first player in NFL history to accumulate more than 20,000 all-purpose yards.
1989 - The Dallas Cowboys trade running back Herschel Walker to the Minnesota Vikings for five players and six future draft picks, including future stars Emmitt Smith, Russell Maryland, Kevin Smith and Darren Woodson.
1991 - Princeton wide receiver Mike Lerch ties an NCAA record with 370 receiving yards in a game.
1991 - #14 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 49-15.
1996 - #5 Nebraska defeats Baylor 49-0.
1997 - Barry Sanders of the Detroit Lions passed Jim Brown and moved into fourth place on the NFL's all-time rushing list with 12,513 yards.
1997 - Eddie Murray of the Minnesota Vikings set an NFL record when he converted his 235th consecutive extra point.
1999 - NBA Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain died at his Bel Air, California home at age 63.
2002 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 24-13.
2010 - The Texas Rangers won their first playoff series in franchise history after defeating the Tamp Bay Devil Rays.
2013 - Nebraska defeats Purdue 44-7.
2016 - Auston Matthews becomes 1st player to score 4 goals in his NHL debut for the Toronto Maple Leafs at Ottawa.
2019 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 34-7.
2020 - Jim Fourteenfiveten wears his tPB swag for the first time. Has sex a record 42 times before lunch.
1492 - Christopher Columbus landed in present-day Bahamas.
1810 - The German festival Oktoberfest was first held in Munich to celebrate the wedding of Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
1864 - Roger B. Taney, the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, died at age 87; he was succeeded by Salmon Chase.
1870 - Gen. Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Virginia at age 63.
1942 - During World War II, American naval forces defeated the Japanese in the Battle of Cape Esperance.
1942 - Attorney General Francis Biddle announced during a Columbus Day celebration at Carnegie Hall in New York City that Italian nationals in the United States would no longer be considered enemy aliens.
1960 - Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev created a disturbance at the U.N. General Assembly by pounding his desk with a shoe.
1964 - The Soviets launched Voskhod I, the first space capsule to carry three people into orbit.
1973 - President Richard Nixon nominated House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford (R-Michigan) to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president.
1984 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped an attempt on her life when an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded at a hotel in Brighton, England, killing five people.
1986 - Superpower talks between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland ended in stalemate.
1997 - Singer John Denver was killed in the crash of his privately built aircraft in Monterey Bay, California; he was 53 years old.
1998 - Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, died five days after he was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie.
1999 - Pakistan's military overthrew the democratically-elected government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
2000 - Seventeen U.S. sailors were killed in a terrorist attack on the USS Cole in Yemen.
2002 - A bomb destroyed a nightclub in Bali, killing 202 people, most of them tourists.
2007 - Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize for sounding the alarm over global warming.
2010 - The Obama administration announced it was lifting the six-month moratorium on deep water oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico imposed after the BP oil spill.
2010 - General Motors CEO Dan Akerson and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner met for the first time in New York to discuss GM's initial public offering as the automaker waited for approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell the shares.
2011 - A Nigerian al-Qaida operative pleaded guilty to trying to bring down a jetliner with a bomb in his underwear minutes before the plane landed in Detroit on Christmas Day 2009. (Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was later sentenced to life in prison.)
2019 - Legislation signed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom would ban the sale and manufacture of new fur products starting in 2023.
Birthdays
28 - Josh Hutcherson (actor)
33 - Ito Aghayere (actor)
34 - Marcus T. Paulk (actor)
34 - Tyler Blackburn (actor)
37 - Katie Piper (TV host)
38 - Lara Trump (daughter-in-law of President Donald Trump)
39 - Brian J. Smith (actor)
43 - Bode Miller (skier)
50 - Kirk Cameron (actor)
51 - Martie Maguire (country singer)
52 - Adam Rich (actor)
52 - Hugh Jackman (actor)
58 - Carlos Bernard (actor)
70 - Susan Anton (actress/singer)
73 - Chris Wallace (broadcast journalist)
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Today in Sports History - October 12
1895 - Nebraska opens the season with a 38-0 win over the Sioux City Athletic Club.
1901 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 19-0.
1907 - The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers in five games to win the World Series.
1907 - Nebraska defeats Grinnell 30-4.
1912 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 30-6.
1916 - The Boston Red Sox defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in five games to win the World Series.
1920 - The Cleveland Indians defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in seven games to win the World Series.
1929 - Nebraska defeats Syracuse 13-6.
1935 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 12-7.
1940 - Nebraska defeats Indiana 13-7.
1946 - Cockeye defeats Nebraska 21-7.
1957 - #20 Pittsburgh defeats Nebraska 34-0.
1963 - Air Force defeats Nebraska 17-13.
1967 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Boston Red Sox in seven games to win the World Series.
1968 - #6 Kansas defeats #9 Nebraska 23-13.
1974 - Missouri upsets #5 Nebraska 21-10.
1979 - Guard Chris Ford of the Boston Celtics scores the first 3-point basket in NBA history in the first quarter of a 114-106 win over the Houston Rockets.
1979 - Future Hall of Famers Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics and Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers make their NBA debuts.
1985 - #9 Nebraska defeats #5 Oklahoma State 34-24.
1986 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears became the first player in NFL history to accumulate more than 20,000 all-purpose yards.
1989 - The Dallas Cowboys trade running back Herschel Walker to the Minnesota Vikings for five players and six future draft picks, including future stars Emmitt Smith, Russell Maryland, Kevin Smith and Darren Woodson.
1991 - Princeton wide receiver Mike Lerch ties an NCAA record with 370 receiving yards in a game.
1991 - #14 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 49-15.
1996 - #5 Nebraska defeats Baylor 49-0.
1997 - Barry Sanders of the Detroit Lions passed Jim Brown and moved into fourth place on the NFL's all-time rushing list with 12,513 yards.
1997 - Eddie Murray of the Minnesota Vikings set an NFL record when he converted his 235th consecutive extra point.
1999 - NBA Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain died at his Bel Air, California home at age 63.
2002 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 24-13.
2010 - The Texas Rangers won their first playoff series in franchise history after defeating the Tamp Bay Devil Rays.
2013 - Nebraska defeats Purdue 44-7.
2016 - Auston Matthews becomes 1st player to score 4 goals in his NHL debut for the Toronto Maple Leafs at Ottawa.
2019 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 34-7.
2020 - Jim Fourteenfiveten wears his tPB swag for the first time. Has sex a record 42 times before lunch.
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